I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
Andrew Carnegie, Businessman (1835) |
Shelagh Delaney, Playwright (1939) |
Bob Ehrlich, Politician (1957) |
Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician (1957) |
Martin Feldstein, Economist (1939) |
Jerry Ferrara, Actor (1979) |
Helen Gahagan, Actress (1900) |
Joe Gibbs, Coach (1940) |
Charlaine Harris, Author (1951) |
Pope John XXIII, Clergyman (1881) |
Roald Dahl, Novelist (1990) |
Laurence Harvey, Actor (1973) |
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Author (1950) |
Charles Kettering, Inventor (1958) |